[SamuelMcF]

Business types and Stanford basketball fans are familiar with the Gartner hype cycle - the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. I have no reason to believe that we are not going there again in 2022-2023.

I have no expectations from MBB other than Ingram being drafted next year and the bar for Haase keeping his job needs to be making the NCAAs. Anything short of that - excuses be damned - and he needs to be shown the door.

I'm glad Ingram is back for one more season

This is the train I'm on. The 3 top built-in excuses are no longer valid.

1. "We just need to get older" is no longer valid - we are now older. 6 of our 9 rotators will be juniors/seniors (compare that to just 3 last season), and the 7th is our best player. Speaking of...
2. "Our star players keep leaving too early" is no longer valid - our star player came back.
3. "We can't get any transfers" is no longer valid - we got one and he'll be a starter. (Whether we can do that consistently is a more legitimate discussion, though, and it's pretty clear we can't bring in 3+ every year like many others do.)

Put up or shut up time.

[SamuelMcF]

Business types and Stanford basketball fans are familiar with the Gartner hype cycle - the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. I have no reason to believe that we are not going there again in 2022-2023.

I have no expectations from MBB other than Ingram being drafted next year and the bar for Haase keeping his job needs to be making the NCAAs. Anything short of that - excuses be damned - and he needs to be shown the door.

I'm glad Ingram is back for one more season

This is the train I'm on. The 3 top built-in excuses are no longer valid.

1. "We just need to get older" is no longer valid - we are now older. 6 of our 9 rotators will be juniors/seniors (compare that to just 3 last season), and the 7th is our best player. Speaking of...
2. "Our star players keep leaving too early" is no longer valid - our star player came back.
3. "We can't get any transfers" is no longer valid - we got one and he'll be a starter. (Whether we can do that consistently is a more legitimate discussion, though, and it's pretty clear we can't bring in 3+ every year like many others do.)

Put up or shut up time.